Enamel Accents Mother's Day Cards

Hey hey hey everyone and all you beautiful Mothers! Today, I have Mother's Day Cards made with several techniques using Wendy Vecchi's Enamel Accents from Ranger. I LOVE using them, and they are much more versatile than you might think.  If you didn't know already, I have a video showing more ways to use them...I hope you check it out. 

Use As A Background: Apply squiggles of all five Enamel Accents to the craft sheet, and mist liberally with water.

Run the #8 and #5 tags through the wet mediums, applying more as needed, and dry with a heat tool.

Stamp the Mason Jar, Rose, and Leaves on the #8 tags using Jet Black, and dry with a heat tool.

Stamp portions of the Rectangle Collage on the tags using Garden Patina Archival, and dry with a heat tool. Aren't those Mini Inks the bomb?!!

Directly Color In: Color in the roses using the Enamel Accents directly from the bottle, and let this dry.

Color in the rose leaves and stem with Leaf Green Enamel Accents from the bottle, and let dry.

Color in some of the open leaves with Garden Patina Enamel Accents from the bottle, and let dry.

Mount the #8 and #5 tags with Heavystock or Manila using Adhesive Strips, and trim around them leaving 1/8 inch border. Hole punch the tag holes, and then adhere the #5 tags to the #8 tags in the lower right corner horizontally, and set these aside.

Use To Stencil and Stamp: Cut black cardstock to 5x6.75 inches to use as the background. Place the Alphabets Stencil over the upper right corner. Apply about a nickel sized amount of one of the Enamel Accents to the craft sheet, and use the Craft Squeegee to apply it through the stencil. Make sure the back of the stencil is clean, and place it on the lower left corner, and again stencil through more Enamel Accents. Clean the squeegee. Apply about a dime sized amount of Garden Patina Enamel Accents to the craft sheet, and spread it around a little. Use the Rectangle Collage stamp, and tamp it into the Enamel Accents and stamp it randomly onto the black background. Clean the stamp with water. Let this dry or use the heat tool. Set this aside.

Take the tags, and stamp the sentiment in the lower right corner so that it is on both tags, using Jet Black. Dry with a heat tool. Mount the tags onto the black background, and then mount again onto a Heavystock or Manila card base using Adhesive Strips.

Use To Watercolor: Squirt a tiny amount of Enamel Accents that is the same color as the rose onto the craft sheet, and pick up with a Water Brush. Color in the sentiment with this. Let dry, and clean the Water Brush.

  

 

 

 

Happy happy happy Mother's Day to all you Mommy's out there...I hope you are spoiled rotten!

Supplies:

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress HEAVYSTOCK	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress HEAVYSTOCK 8.5 x 11,	#8 Kraft Tags - Inkssentials	#5 Manila Tags - Inkssentials	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Enamel Accents Set of 8
Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER	Archival Ink - Jet Black	Tim Holtz Grid Acrylic Blocks	Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Stamp Set in Art In A Jar	Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Stamp Set in Mix and Match Art
Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Stamp Set in Flourishing Art	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in Garden Patina	Stamper′s Anonymous Wendy Vecchi Background Stamp in Rectangle Collage	*We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE Eyelet and Snap Punch Pink	Eanger surfaces Black cardstock
Ranger Craft Squeegee	Ranger Adhesive Strips	Tim Holtz - Water Brush Detailer

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Mixed Media Ink Palette Butterfly Card

Hello all! I hope this post finds all of you well. I can't believe it's already May...time is flying by too fast this year, and I've been lax in posting, sorry. Today, I have another card that I made for the Ranger Ink booth at Creativation this year, using the Tim Holtz Mixed Media Ink Palette with those four yummy vintage colors.  Enjoy!

Using Ink Blending Tools, ink over a piece of Distress Heavystock with all the colors from the palette except Black Soot. Ink the edges as well, and then mist and flick rubbing alcohol over the card to create water looking marks...Archival Ink reacts with alcohol like Distress Ink does with water.

Stamp over the card with the Birch background stamp using Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain from the palette.

Mist the card with Tarnished Brass Distress Mica Spray, and then mount on black cardstock. Have a kraft colored card for the base ready to go.

Die cut the Sizzix Wildflowers with a brown Distress Cardstock, and the Honeycomb Frameworks with burlap from the Textured Surfaces. Use a Sanding Grip to shabby up the Wildflowers...carefully with tearing them...and adhere both on the card.

Use a Hickory Smoke Distress Marker to add shadow to the Wildflowers to make them pop a little more.

Stamp the butterfly from the Perspective Stamp Set from Tim and Stamper's Anonymous, onto more Heavystock using the Black Soot. Ink over the butterfly with Vintage Photo on the outer edges of the wings. It will look messy, but trust me.

Ink over the whole butterfly with lots of Mustard Seed Distress Ink, and dry with a heat tool thoroughly. Stamp over the butterfly image again, making sure to stay in the previous lines, with Black Soot, and pour Clear Embossing Powder over it. Emboss it with a heat tool, and then cut (or die cut) the butterfly out. Use a white pen to highlight the lines on the butterfly, for a monarch look.

Ink over a piece of Crinkle Ribbon with Walnut Stain Archival, and tie a bow around the card. Adhere the card to the kraft base card.

Use stars, arrows, and numbers from the Christmas set of Gilded Accents, and rub them onto the card. Just because this is not a Christmas card doesn't mean you can't use the Remnant Rubs ;0)! Attach the butterfly with Multi Medium.

Color the star and jump rings with Archival Ink, by rubbing them over the pads directly. Dry them with a heat tool, and attach the star to the ribbon. Add the sentiments from Small Talk to kraft cardstock, cut them out, and attach them to the card.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and for all the comments. I'll be back soon! Until then, be your beautiful self!!!

Supplies:

Ranger Distress Mixed Media Heavystock	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed media Palette	MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS	Eanger surfaces Black cardstock	Ranger 8.5 x 11 Kraft Cardstock
Ranger Adhesive Strips	Tim Holtz Stamper′s Anonymous Stamp Set in Birch and Pine	Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2015 PERSPECTIVE	Tim Holtz Grid Acrylic Blocks	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Spray
Tim Holtz Sizzix Wildflowers	Tim Holtz Core′dinations DISTRESS Colorcore 4.25 X 5.5 Cardstock	im Holtz Sanding Grip	Tim Holtz Sizzix HONEYCOMB Frameworks Die	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2015 TEXTURED SURFACES
Multi Medium Matte	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker in Hickory Smoke	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED Ranger	Embossing Powder - Clear	Tim Holtz Mini Snips
White Glaze Pen	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon	Tim Holtz Idea-ology GILDED CHRISTMASTIME Remnant Rubs TH93330	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2015 REMNANT RUB TOOL Stylus	Tim Holtz idea-ology Souvenir Adornments
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Jump Rings	Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!